Primary Faculty


Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- anal cancer, sexually transmitted infections, congenital syphilis

Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Trachoma, disease outbreaks, mathematical analysis of disease transmission

Nooshin Razani, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Pediatric mental health, family and community health, access to greenspace, outdoor play, pediatric resilience

Mike Reid, MD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Global Health, HIV, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tuberculosis, COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness, Global Health Security

George Rutherford, III, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology and prevention of infectious and tropical diseases, with a primary focus on HIV/AIDS; epidemiology of tuberculosis in California, the prevention of childhood injury, immunizations, Hepatitis C, evidence-based medicine and public policy, preterm birth, implementation science and bioterrorism

Jaime Sepúlveda, MD, DrSc, MSc, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- AIDS, STIs, diarrhea, cholera, geographical information systems, epidemiologic surveillance systems, ethics and health, health system reform, national health surveys, nutrition and health, vaccines, immunizations, implementation sciences, neglected tropical diseases, tobacco control, maternal health, child health

Starley Shade, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease

Jennifer L. Smith, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease

Catherine Ines Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Global Health

Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Social and migration-related determinants of health and aging in the US and Latin America; health effects of immigration policy across the life-course; health disparities; family dynamics and health

Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Global mental health, HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, health equity, community-engaged research, implementation science, mixed methods

Paul Wesson, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- HIV, health disparities, surveillance, population size estimation, sampling methods, social determinants, intersectionality

Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Global Health
Secondary Faculty

Adithya Cattamanchi, MD, MAS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Tuberculosis, Lung Disease, Health Disparities, Implementation Science

Judith Hahn, PhD, MA
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- The use of TB prophylaxis in HIV/TB co-infected alcohol users, as well as interventions to reduce drinking and increase antiretroviral therapy adherence

Hacsi Horvath, MA
Fellow
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Medical ethics, HIV/AIDS, emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, systematic reviews

Thomas Lietman, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- trachoma

Saam Morshed, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Orthopaedics, trauma, post-traumatic arthritis

Mark Seielstad, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- The interface of genetic epidemiology and population/anthropological genetics
Affiliate Faculty

Dhruv Kazi, MD, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Global Health
- Health economics, cost-effectiveness, m-health, global health, anticoagulation
Emeritus Faculty

Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis

Richard Feachem, KBE, PhD, DSc(Med)
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria

Dean Jamison
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Health economics, health policy

James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health